XM Radio

I have a 2005 Honda Odyssey Model EX with the standard audio system.
What would be required to be able to subscribe to the XM radio service,
is the current radio equipped for it or what is lacking.

 

Look at the radio-- if it has a button for XM, it's capable. You just need
the radio serial number and can sign up online.

If there's no button, you'd need to buy a supplemental XM receiver to mount
in/on your dashboard-- or replace the existing radio with one that is
XM-capable.

 

an ipod.

http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/30/1458232

 

Tough to argue with that. With so much available between pod casting
and simple downloading, why would anyone pay a monthly fee for this
lo-fidelity solution. One woman I know who lives in her car and loves
talk radio likes it. Everyone else says it's value is less than
satisfactory, even if they like the content, it fades in and out as
they drive.

 

Fades in and out? Only time I've ever lost the XM signal in my 07 Accord was
going through a tunnel.

 

my wife's 2007 Lexus has 'SAT' (satellite) button on her radio. But I would
have to have the radio modified to pick up XM/Sirius according to Lexus
dealer. High $$.

I have a 2005 Honda Odyssey Model EX with the standard audio system.
What would be required to be able to subscribe to the XM radio service,
is the current radio equipped for it or what is lacking.

 

You don't talk to many people, then.

No fading here--and I've had sat radio for, um, 7 or 8 years now.

 

Friend of mine has it, I borrowed it once, didn't have any trouble with
the reception, though I wasn't terribly impressed with the content. I
wouldn't pay for it myself, but if someone else wants it I wouldn't talk
them out of it. I like the iPod solution and use mine almost daily, some
people prefer a standalone receiver.

 

Not so with Honda. My 2004 required nothing more than a phone call.


RFT!!!
Dave Kelsen
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2001 Odyssey EX 4AT
2003 Accord Sedan LX 5AT
2004 Accord Coupe EX-Nav 6MT

Only a small percentage of male elephant seals ever get to mate -- most
spend their lives growing fat while watching the action from a distance.
All this goes to show, I think, that we're just TV and some beer from
a total brotherhood of nature.

 

That depends on whether the option was installed or not. My 2006 has
an XM button, but the module is not installed. The module is very
easy to install and costs a paltry $400.00. I'll stick with my iPod
and MP3 CD's...

 

Maybe it depends on where you live, here in the Pacific Northwest, reception
was awful. building, truck (big rig), motorhome, big tree, billboard
anything to the south of the car stopped reception. The lousy reception was
the reason I dropped it also because of the commercials on the comedy
channel but frankly it took me over a year to cancel service because every
time I tried to cancel they gave me another 3 months, so, counting my first
3 months free + four extensions my total cost for the total cost of my 15
months of XM was $0.....btw, the equipment was free through a
dockers/jcpenny promotion a few years ago....but overall, I would say the
service was worth about what I paid for it.

 

I haven't really been following this thread, but I just ordered a
portable web radio player from Woot. It links with
http://www.slacker.com and downloads up to 15 "channels" that you have
preselected into flash memory. It will then play with no reception
needed. It will then update its content whenever it's in a WiFi area, if
it's unlocked WiFi or you have the password. (Supposedly you can get
passwords for businesses lie Starbucks.) You can use it in a car the
same way you'd connect an MP-3 player. I don't have the portable player
yet, but I've been using the *free* version of the site's web radio, and
it's surprisingly good. You can program your own content, or just 'ban'
artists or songs and 'favorite' others that you want to hear more often.

I got a great deal on a 1st gen player, though. The new ones, while
better, are $200. Still, if you choose not to subscribe, it will pay for
itself pretty quickly. I almost got XM several times, but that monthly
fee was just too high. Slacker's fee is $7.50, if you want to lose the
few commercials they have and gain the ability to keep songs on the
player...

 

My sister loves hers for long-haul travel (like Tyler, TX to Indy.
Which, sadly, she won't be doing anymore). But she may get an iPod
for Christmas along with an iTunes gift card.
--
- dillon I am not invalid

When you wish upon a falling star, your dreams come true.
Unless it's really a meteorite hurtling to the Earth which
will destroy all life. Then you're pretty much hosed no
matter what you wish for. Unless it's death by meteor.

 

I think some of the channels are good, but in New England it fades in
and out in the rural areas.

I also wonder about the fidelity. I'm spoiled by buying all these new
surround sound 5.1 channel discreet music. Do you get any hi-tech
hi-fidelity with XM?